Top TV magician stars in new Noel Clarke
film-Film News
As an award winning magician and one of
the stars of ‘Penn and Teller: Fool us’
(ITV1) Ali Cook has shocked and amazed
us with his unique blend of highly
inventive original magic tricks.
Following on from his role in English
period drama Mr Selfridge, Ali Cook
stars in Sci fi action thriller The
Anomaly alongside Ian Somerhalder (The
Vampire diaries), Luke Hemsworth (Neighbours)
and Alexis Knapp (Ground Floor)...
Publ.Date : 19 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Penn and Teller: 'We compare death
threats with Richard Dawkins'-Telegraph
What kind of trickery is this? First of
all, Teller struggles to unscrew the cap
on the bottle of fizzy water plonked on
the hotel boardroom table. Having a
couple of decades on the diminutive
66-year-old magician, I give it a go.
Failing miserably, I hand it to his
hulking partner, Penn Jillette, 59, who
is twice the man of each of us. Or, he’s
the two of us combined. He can’t open it
either....
Publ.Date : 20 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Miss X And Her Magician-Beliefnet
You can’t always trust the Magician.
Sometimes this card will show up when
you have the consummate skills to
accomplish the task at hand, be it the
first day on a new job or a walk around
the block after a convalescence. It can
be that mundane. It can be that
meaningful. But I’ve also drawn this
card for a manipulator, opportunist,
smoother operator.
Publ.Date : 20 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Magic night at the Ashmolean has
visitors spellbound
Sebastian Walton, who won The Magic
Circle’s Young Magician of the Year
award last April, joined the Magic
Museums at Night event on Friday.
Performing to crowds of more than 100
people, the 18-year-old dazzled
audiences during three shows of his
close-up magic and illusion act.
Publ.Date : Tue, 20 May 2014 10:57:38
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Real Deal: More Thoughts On The Magician
Card-Beliefnet
And in every one of these decks, the
Magician has a table. Is it his table?
We assume so. And yes, in all my cards,
the Magician is depicted as male. Once
during an on-line search I discovered a
Magician card that I thought was female
but no — he actually just had long
blonde hair.
Publ.Date : 21 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Magic man Jack opens shop after ship
tragedy -Burton Mail
A MAGICIAN who lost five friends in a
lifeboat accident when he was working on
a cruise ship has opened his own magic
shop. Jack Dent threw himself into
setting up the shop to take his mind off
the tragedy, and now – more than a year
on – the project has come to fruition.
JD’s Magic Box is due to open this
weekend, in a blaze of performance and
trickery...
Publ.Date : 21 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Penn and Teller may not believe in God
but they do believe in magic-Calgary
Herald
Las Vegas stalwarts, Penn and Teller,
about to celebrate their 40th
anniversary, are still packing ’em in at
The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino. The
most famous magic act in the world,
they’re magicians for people who don’t
like magicians. Not so much for their
tricks, staggering and inventive though
they are. These conjurors toy
brilliantly with the tropes of magic and
use them to debunk mysteries, lampoon
ho-hum sleights of hand and make
whip-smart intellectual, political and
philosophical points...
Publ.Date : 22 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Brookline magician follows his dream,
with a handkerchief up his-Wicked Local
Brookline
Magician Eric Benton wants you to know
exactly what his show isn’t.
It’s written plainly on his website.
What you won’t get is “sparkly boxes,”
routines that make audience members the
butt of jokes, and finally, no playing
of the song “Final Countdown” by the
band Europe.
The Brookline resident likes his magic
to stand on its own....
Publ.Date : 22 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Magical pirate show at Sparta Ave.
Stage-New Jersey Herald
According to John Bundy, magic is one of
the oldest forms of entertainment and
still plays a huge role in other genres,
particularly theater. With
"Skullduggery," his magical pirate
adventure, Bundy and assistant Morgan
prove his point, weaving magic, illusion
and special effects through a
pirate-inspired family show with gritty
buccaneers and even swordplay...
Publ.Date : 22 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Evening of caberet this weekend at
Lantern Theatre in Southport-Liverpool
Echo
THE Lantern Theatre presents an evening
of cabaret on Sunday. Southside Cabaret
is hosted by Simon South, Chester’s
Stage Magician of the Year, who is
promising “some incredible magic, great
music, amazing burlesque and much more.”
He adds: “Most of our cast are from
Liverpool or live in Liverpool, which
we’re quite excited by!”..
Publ.Date : 22 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Meet the conjurers of Michael Jackson's
ghost-USA TODAY
So what is it? "An illusion," Patterson
says. Indeed, Pulse refined a
19th-century magician's technique called
Pepper's ghost, which Textor -- then
leading Oscar-winning graphics company
Digital Domain -- also employed to
summon the ghost of slain rapper Tupac
Shakur at the Coachella music festival
in 2012. The effect involves projecting
an image on glass or plastic at a
45-degree angle, which brings that image
into the viewer's field of view...
Publ.Date : 23 May 2014 00:00:00 -0700

Christian Magician's Mind-Blowing Trick
Shows the Bible in a Deck of Cards
Following in the footsteps of his father
and uncle, Justin Flom became a
magician. He's performed his magic
around the world, including multiple
appearances on "The Ellen Show." Flom is
an avowed follower of Christ, and in
this 2012 video, he puts an illusory
spin on an 18th-century tale of how a
soldier uses a deck of cards as his
Bible.
Publ.Date : Fri, 23 May 2014 09:50:33
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Winnipeg magician Darcy Oake awaits
Britain's Got Talent judgment
Winnipeg magician Darcy Oake finds out
Sunday night if he will make it to the
semi finals of Britain's Got Talent.
Last month, the 26 year old blew away
the judges one of the top talent shows
in the world, including the
notoriously-critical Simon Cowell. That
performance went viral on YouTube and
Oake, who is in London for Sunday's live
results show, said he is getting
recognized on the streets of that city.
Publ.Date : Fri, 23 May 2014 05:45:16
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Lehigh Valley magician to compete on
'America's Got Talent'
David Caserta, who started performing
magic at 11, auditioned for the hit show
and went through “bootcamp” in New York
City in April. The show has replaced its
Las Vegas round with the “bootcamp”
auditions held in front of a live studio
audience at Madison Square Garden.
Caserta can even be spotted in the
television ad airing for the show’s
return. He can be glimpsed recreating
his levitation illusion.
Publ.Date : Sun, 25 May 2014 05:54:56
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